1799 Large Cent

The date spacing and placement is wrong for a 1799

Don't have my reference books in front of me, but at second glance I'm afraid it looks like a 1798.

That certainly does look like a 9.

There are only 3 Sheldon numbers for this year; S-188, S-189, and S-NC-1 (7 known).

I'm still learning old cents, and I don't have my books in front of me, but the last digit on your coin looks a little too high to match any of the sheldon numbers for this year.

Here you can find pictures of the S-188http://www.pcgscoinfacts.com/Coin/D...6131?redir=t, S-189 http://www.pcgscoinfacts.com/Coin/Detail/36140, and S-NC-1 http://www.pcgscoinfacts.com/Coin/D...6134?redir=t


I'm leaning toward this being an altered date of a more common cent. Here is an example http://www.largecents.net/collectio...799-s179.jpg

Good luck bud, I hope it turns out to be a 1799!

I have a 1799/8 that I purchased raw.
Only reason I purchased it raw was because it had a Grellman card :-)

That does look like a 9. Best of luck to you!

Will do. It's pretty beat up (corroded) but it was in my realm of affordability.
You can see the last nine.

Cool piece of history

Thanks, no matter how it turns out I can't complain. I got 7 coins and have a very small amount in them. I was buying silver and a woman wanted to dump these and a handful of Indians. I don't collect copper but bought them. I got a decent 1870 Indian and a corroded 1869 Indian. A couple of the large cents look to be in really good shape (EF? don't know the grade well). One I still have to put under the macro lense to see if it has a date and a couple are just OK with readable dates. If his is a 99 though it would be a great piece. I didn't plan to become a collector but this is getting me interested. I have XXX, a lot, XXX silver coins and in the process I have obtained a large % of them in unc and proof states. Maybe it's time to go and look closer at the dates :o) I know some are fairly rare, but mostly I like to stack nice silver